The report is a study of which neighborhoods qualified as slum areas. In order to establish this, it contains information about the structural integrity of city housing, social welfare, and the economic status of the citizens. The study was essential in obtaining funding from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works in order to eliminate the slum areas of the city and provide low cost housing for the citizens of Buffalo.

These maps offer important historical documentation of the city of Buffalo during the Great Depression, including: population density, population changes, the distribution of ethnic groups, the distribution of those in social welfare programs, major crime, cases of venereal diseases, Buffalo City Hospital bed patients, the distribution of parks, city and public and parochial school playgrounds, location of churches, the distribution of schools, and the councilmanic districts and wards of the City.

The companion text volume to this set of maps, a report entitled Request for Slum Elimination and Low cost Housing in Buffalo, New York, is also online.

Scanning donated by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.